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  1. MarkyMark says:
    January 10, 2025 at 10:02 am

    Oh dear … “The Greenland question is a delicate one for Denmark, whose prime minister officially apologised only recently for spearheading a 1950s social experiment which saw Inuit children removed from their families to be re-educated as “model Danes”.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp313e41jy1o

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  2. MarkyMark says:
    January 10, 2025 at 10:16 am

    2025 … “There are three for left-handed people, three for right-handed and two are accessible for wheelchairs.”

    https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/24845825.glasgows-drug-room-finally-open-services-needed/

    “After injecting they move to a recovery space with comfortable chairs, again under supervision with equipment available to the staff if they need to intervene.

    The third area is the café area, where people can stay a bit longer, and is where it is hoped staff will be able to engage with people to offer any other services they might need.”

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    • atlas_shrugged says:
      January 10, 2025 at 10:48 am

      Marky

      The infamous ‘wet-houses’ where people can drink and take drugs in ‘safety’.

      I asked one of the Cranebridge councillors what the difference was between a wet-house and a chamber where the occupants are given zyklon-B. He replied that the urban-junkie occupants of a Cranebridge wethouse AKA ‘kill zone’ are doing it voluntary.

      It took me a long time to understand the motives of anyone who would want to be involved with such a proposal. I credit Gilbert who wrote a book about the Nuremberg trial. He said about the people on trial that they had no compassion or empathy.

      My own thoughts are that the organisers also gain with employment, a feeling of virtue for doing a public service etc:

      Click to access community-safety-strategic-assessment-asb-drugs-impact-2017-09.pdf

      Personally I have more sympathies with the magnificent Chinese and their system. After a short 5-minute trial the drug pushers are taken outside and a small magic pill is delivered at high velocity to the back of the head. Certainly anyone pushing drugs on children should have this experience.

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  3. Zephir says:
    January 10, 2025 at 10:59 am

    Our Pinocchio primeminister lying again (and again and again)

    “Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of being “deeply dishonest” over claims Labour is deporting more Channel migrants.

    On Thursday, the Prime Minister said the number of failed asylum seekers being sent home has increased to 16,400 since his party won power.

    He referenced the figure as he defended his plan to sanction people smugglers, prompting fury from critics.

    Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp told the Daily Express the vast majority of those being deported “have nothing to do with small boat arrivals”.

    Mr Philp said: “This government is only returning tiny numbers who entered the UK by small boat, amounting to about 5% of arrivals since they came to office.

    “Letting 95% of people who cross by small boat stay in the UK is not a deterrent. The Government is being deeply dishonest by claiming returns that mainly have nothing to do with small boat arrivals will act as a deterrent.”

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1998415/Starmer-Channel-migrants-smugglers-Labour-Starmer

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  4. Flotsam says:
    January 10, 2025 at 11:00 am

    It’s pretty obvious that Smarmer hasn’t a clue. He has a very odd world view which I would describe a mechanistic or even sociopathic. This combined with his control freakery and Stalinist ideas makes him a very dangerous man. He treats everyone as either black or white, they are either on side or off side, innocent or guilty. The problem for him is that running the country involves thinking in shades of grey rather than a legal exercise.

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  5. MarkyMark says:
    January 10, 2025 at 11:19 am

    “Reeves’ China trip defended after borrowing cost nerves”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y7kr5p4lko

    https://www.flightradar24.com/RYR671G/38aaf965

    Will Rachel fly over Russia to save energy as China does with it’s planes?

    ”
    Since Russia closed its airspace to airlines from dozens of countries at the end of February – in response to sanctions levied for its invasion of Ukraine – about 400 flights per month that had previously been routed over the country are being forced to take a wider berth, according to Flightradar24.”
    https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/24/world/flights-reroute-around-russia-carbon-cost-climate/index.html

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    • Fedup2 says:
      January 10, 2025 at 11:38 am

      Marky – I bet there’s no press conference – but if there is – the only question will be – are you out of touch – ? Wouldn’t you be better back in accounts ?

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  6. chancygardner says:
    January 10, 2025 at 11:24 am

    Starmer reminds me of of the cyborg played by Arnold Shwarzenegger in the film Terminator.

    He was described as follows:

    ‘That Terminator is out there! It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop… ever, until you are dead!’

    Indeed, there is an argument that Starmer has been replaced by an AI double. The real Starmer could be a kindly old gentleman, in exile somewhere, smoking a pipe and telling bedtime stories to orphans.

    You only need to refer to the false jolity and robotic fiiiiive, fooooour, threeeee, twoooo, one delivery of the Christmas tree light up outside number 10, to subscribe to this notion.

    I rest my case.

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  7. Fedup2 says:
    January 10, 2025 at 11:50 am

    The vote about the Muslim paki paedo racist rape gang inquiry is recorded in the DT – neither the leader of the Labour Party – nor the leader of the liberals – nor braverman – voted … odd eh ?
    Maybe it’s about self incrimination …

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  8. vlad says:
    January 10, 2025 at 11:57 am

    Unbelievably, the imbecilic Biden (remember him?) wound up a press conference on the fires raging in California by announcing “the good news” that he was now a great grandfather.
    Yes, while thousands have lost their homes under his watch, many have died, and the financial cost is astronomical, the old fool boasts about being a great grandfather

    Talk about ‘tone deaf’. The man ultimately responsible for the apocalyptic disaster raging, stands there grinning like a moron at his ‘good news’ while those around him – including noisome Newsom, the second person most responsible – clap wildly like trained seals.

    It’s all reminiscent of David Brent announcing that “many of you will lose your jobs, but the good news is… I’ve been promoted.”

    David’s “Bad News and Irrelevant News”

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  9. Zephir says:
    January 10, 2025 at 12:33 pm

    @ Vlad, he reportedly handed the mic over to the Harris thing and said “fire away, no pun intended”

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  10. Zephir says:
    January 10, 2025 at 12:51 pm

    “Britain’s gas supply has reached ‘concerningly low’ levels and could run out in a matter of days after an Arctic blast sent temperatures plunging.

    The icy weather over the last few days has seen demand for gas-fired power stations skyrocket, energy firm Centrica said.

    Now it’s feared a fresh blast of freezing weather – which could see temperatures drop to a bone-chilling -20C – could trigger an energy crisis.

    The UK is heavily reliant on natural gas to keep the homes of millions of Brits warm during the winter. It also uses a significant amount to power the electricity grid.

    But as of Thursday, storage sites across the UK were 26 per cent down on last year’s supply, leaving them around ‘half full’, Centrica said.

    ‘This means the UK has less than a week of gas demand in store,’ the energy giant warned.

    It comes as the nation came ‘within a whisker’ of wide-scale blackouts earlier this week, in its closest shave since 2011. ”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14270547/warning-low-gas-levels-fears-ice-blast-temperatures-plunge.html

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  11. Lucy Pevensey says:
    January 10, 2025 at 1:15 pm

    I stumbled across this by cance. Not directly related to anything else but wow! The male human being is awesome to behold.

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  12. MarkyMark says:
    January 10, 2025 at 1:15 pm

    “Families are still struggling with the cost of living and I’m fighting to put more money in the pockets of working people.

    That’s why we protected their payslips with no rise in their national insurance, income tax or VAT, boosted the national living wage and froze fuel duty.”

    https://x.com/RachelReevesMP/status/1869284655188582622

    ……………

    Banking hubs are revitalising our high streets, giving local businesses and residents access to essential face to face banking services.

    Delighted to be in Darwen today with
    @TulipSiddiq
    and
    @AndyMacnae
    opening the UK’s 100th banking hub.

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  13. vlad says:
    January 10, 2025 at 1:24 pm

    NOT on the BBC: Remember the poor lickle 14 year-old aspiring doctor and engineer recently stabbed to death on a bus?
    It turns out he was more of an aspiring drill rapper (the most violent type of a violent genre) and was due in court for a machete offence.

    Did he deserve to die? Of course not, but let’s not pretend he wasn’t part of the violent criminal sub-culture brought to us courtesy of diversity.

    Remember: diversity is our strength.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/09/14-year-old-rapper-stabbed-death-london-bus-machete/

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